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Patented July 26-, 1893.

UNITED STATES .ATENT OFFICE.

AUGUSTE JEAN BAPTISTE LAUSSEDAT, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

CORK-RETAINER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 502,126, dated July 25,1893.

Application filed March 22, 1893. Serial No. 467,202. (No model.)Patented in France October 7, 1892,110. 224,721.

T0 00% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTE JEAN BAP- TISTE LAUSSEDAT, a citizen of theRepublic of France, residing in Paris, France, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Cork-Retainers, (patented in FranceOctoher 7,1892,N0. 224,721,) of which the following is a specification. X

My invention relates to cork-retainers for bottles, and is especiallydesigned to replace wire for this purpose. It is particularly welladapted for use on bottles containing champagne and other sparkling oreffervescent wines, but may be used on all forms of bottled liquids.

. The invention will be particularly described hereinafter and its novelfeatures carefully defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings Figures 1 to 7,'inclusive, illustrate theconstruction of the retainer, and Fig. 8, its application to a stopperedbottle. Fig. 1 is a plan of the retainer as it appears when stamped orcut out but before it has been shaped for application to the bottle.Fig. 2 is a plan of the retainer after.

being bent into shape. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the retainer seen inFig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 are fragmentary detail views showing the clips onthe collar. Figs. 6and 7 are, respectively, a plan and side elevation ofthe finished retainer, ready to be placed on the bottle. Fig. 8 is afront view of the retainer in place on the bottle. Fig. 9 is a frontView; Fig. 10, a side View, and Fig. 11 a plan, of the retainer on abottle and provided with a detaching device; and Fig. 12 is a view,similar to Fig. 10, illustrating the operation of detaching theretainer. Figs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 illustrate two modes of securing thedetaching wire to its disk or button.

The retainer is cut or stamped from sheet metal in the form shown inFig. 1; and it comprises a ring or circle, A, to rest on the cork, twobranches, B, B, connected at their outer ends, respectively, to thehalves, O, O, of the collar, and a branch, B, called the middle branch.Thesebranches are preferably spaced equally and project radially fromthe circle A. Each half, 0, of the collar has formed on its one end akeeper-eye, a, stamped up from the metal, and at its other end, alaterally projecting clip, I). The'free, outer end of the middle branch,B, has formed in it a transverse slot, 0, and beyond this slot, akeepereye, e.

In shaping the retainer from the flat, blank form seen in Fig. 1, thebranches B, B, B, are bent down at nearly right-angles to the plane ofthe circle A, the clips, I), on the collar-sections bent outward asindicated in Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6, and the said sections bent into ahoop-form until one clip I) rests on the other. The clips I) are thenpassed outwardly through the slot 0, in branch B, and bent or clincheddown, as seen in Figs. 7 and 8. A bit of annealed wire, d (Figs. 6 and7) is now secured at its ends to the respective keeper-eyes, a, in thesections 0 of the collar.

The retainer, constructed as above described, is now ready to be appliedto the bottle, X. In doing this, the collar is expanded so as to passdown over the fillet, D, at the mouth of the bottle and embrace the neckof the latter, the circle or ring-cap, A, resting on the cork, g. Thewire at is now twisted with a suitable instrument which serves to drawthe collar tightly about the neck of the bottle. If desired, the clipsI) need not be passed through the slot 0 and clinched, until after theretainer is in place on the bottle.

The retainer is readily detached for removal by straightening out, orunclinching the clips b, and this may be readily efiected by drawing orjerking the lower, slotted end of the middle branch B, outward andupward, or obliquely to the axis of the bottle. A convenient and alwaysready means of effecting this is illustrated in Figs. 9 to 16. A wire,K, is secured to the branch B, through the medium of the keeper-eye e,thereon, and to the free end of this wire is attached a thumbpiece, H,in the form of asheet metal button, as herein shown. In Figs. 13 to 16 Ihave shown the preferred manner of constructing this button. A sheetmetal disk, h, has two slits, i, i, cut in it, and the metal betweenthese slitsstruck up to form a keeper to receive a hook, is, on the endof the wire K. After the wire has been secured to the disk, anotherdisk, 71., embossed or cupped, is applied to the back of the disk h, andflanged over the margin of the same, in a well known IOC way. Fig. 13shows the back of disk h, Fig. 14 a section of same, Fig. 15 a sectionof the button, and Fig. 16 a face view of the button.

The branch B is partly broken away in Figs. 2 and 3 to better illustratethe clips b.

The ring-cap, A, is made open so as to better fit on the top of thecork, which is usually convex.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. A sheet metalcork-retainer for bottles, comprising a ring-cap or circle, A, thebranches B, B, integral with said circle, the collar in two parts, eachintegral with abranch B, and provided with a clip I), the branch B,integral with the circle A and provided with a slot 0 to receive theclips on the collar, and a Wire 61 connecting the ends of the two partsof the collar opposite to the ends on which the clips are formed,substantially as set forth.

2. A sheet metal cork-retainer, comprising a ring-cap or circle, A,branches B, B, integral with said ring, the collar, in two parts, eachintegral with one of the branches B, and provided at its end with a clipI), the branch B, integral with the circle A and provided with a slot 0to receive the clips I), a wire (1 for connecting the ends of the collaropposite to the clips, and a wire and thumb-piece, attached to thebranch B, to serve for disengaging it from the clinched clips,substantially as set forth.

3. An integral cork-retainer blank, formed of sheet metal, substantiallyas described, comprising the ring or circle A, the radial branches B, B,the parts 0, C, of the collar, connected, respectively with the outerends of said branches and furnished each with a clip, b, at one end anda keeper, a, at the other end, and the middle branch,B', having in itsfree end a slot 0, as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

AUGUSTE JEAN BAPTISTE LAUSSEDAT.

WVitnesses:

ALEXANDRE MATHIEU, R. M. HOOPER.

